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Nach ner ganzen Weile heute mal wieder aktiv @thunderbird als Mailclient im #Agenturleben vorgestellt und weiterempfohlen.

Schnelle und total simple Einrichtung, einfache Bedienung, cooles Featureset. Hat sich richtig gut angefühlt. #FOSS


Open Document Format (ODF) is the native format of #LibreOffice – and can be used by many other office apps too. Learn how it compares to Microsoft's formats and what the future holds: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


We're half-way through the Month of #LibreOffice, May 2025 – and 216 people have already won sticker packs! There's extra merch to get too. Join in the fun: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀

Why do developers keep choosing LibreOffice after 40 years? 🛠️
Jim Hall interviews co-founder Italo Vignoli on tech, transparency, and freedom.

allthingsopen.org/articles/40-…

#WeLoveOpenSource #LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS #ODF #DigitalSovereignty


For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

apnews.com/article/icc-trump-s…

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech


🔥 The EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is LIVE at euvd.enisa.europa.eu/homepage 🇪🇺💪

Finally, we've got our OWN vulnerability tracking system that's not dependent on …

Three awesome dashboards: critical vulns, actively exploited stuff, and EU-coordinated disclosures. … intel we need to patch our systems PROPERLY!

This is digital sovereignty and resilience in action, folks! No more single points of failure in global vuln tracking. 🧙‍♂️🖥️

#Cybersecurity #EUVD #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #NIS2


In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle


I can't tell y'all how much I love #Emacs. It was the first interface that really intrigued me. It was the first interface where I felt like there was so much I could learn about. And Emacspeak brought it to life for me. Headings spoken by a deeper voice. Italics spoken by a higher, rather fuzzy voice. Bold spoken by a deep voice, almost like headings. Because headings are bold, and large. A calendar where I could move around the actual calendar, not just a list of events. Want to know what date next Friday is? Find Friday of this week, and simply press Down arrow. Or C-n if you're really into Emacs. And there it is. Oh and Nov-mode (nov.el). I can't say enough about that package. An EPUB reader that doesn't choke on a huge book. And Markdown-mode and Org-mode, and even HTML-mode. With Emacspeak, I could hear the syntax highlighting. That way, I knew if I didn't close a bracket pair, or quotes, not only by the punctuation itself, but how the voice sounds.

And now Emacspeak hasn't been updated in a year. Luckily, I think T.V. Raman has made fixes up to Emacs 30. But beyond that, I don't know. I hope it's not abandoned forever. I maybe could use Emacs through Orca, or BRLTTY, or maybe Speechd-el, if I can figure out how it's supposed to be set up and used well. But it feels like such a pail imitation of Emacspeak. But then, unconfigured Emacs doesn't feel all that special either.

#Emacs #foss #Emacspeak #accessibility #blind #linux




Well crap. Tried Slint, but it like, uses Alsa and doesn't have sound drivers for my main sound card, and using a USB sound card, well it broke after I saved Orca settings. Not even a restart fixed it. Meh. Ah well. Linux breaks.

#slint #blind #accessibility #Linux #foss


@lcruggeri Seems like it would be good to encourage and normalize a trend towards sharing about what FOSS we've donated to most recently. Make it a part of FOSS social culture. If we're openly sharing every time we donate it might encourage or remind others.

My most recent donations were to the Linux Mint folks, Thunderbird, Wikipedia. My donations are always small due to my budget but repeated throughout the year as often as I'm able.

#Linux #FOSS


Is there a coop or collective of disabled people in tech where you can go to hire accessibility experts? I don't want to continue to release software unless I know its accessible, but I can't know that unless I have my software audited by disabled tech experts that know the pitfalls of these things. I don't need free labour either. I am happy to pay for this service.

#a11y #accessbility #disablity #foss


If you are blind and you have the spoons, can you let me know if you use the terminal on Linux and if so which one? If you use the terminal, do you use a screenreader plugin or a specific external screenreader on Linux?

I wrote a terminal UI program for kubernetes that has voice assistance and I want to test it with a normal workflow that a disabled user would follow.

Edit: I am also willing to pay! Read further down in this thread!

#a11y #foss #accessbility


“Linux ‘just works’ – if you can see.

This isn’t a bug.
This is neglect.”

@fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…

(And its ableist culture will sooner make you the villain for criticising it rather than acknowledging the failing and fixing the status quo. ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be… There’s a reason I’m back on Mac after six years on Linux. As a developer, it was impacting my ability to make what I’m building accessible. And I reject the unspoken premise that the source being open is somehow more important than the human right to universal access. Ethical technology requires more than just the “four freedoms” web.archive.org/web/2025041809… This is why inclusivity is a core Small Technology principle. small-tech.org/about/#small-te…)

#accessibility #inclusivity #universalAccess #a11y #linux #FOSS #openSource #freeSoftware #freedom





Coming to a future release of #LibreOffice: Spotlight commands in the Style Inspector. Learn more in the QA and development report for April: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource


New #intro!

I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.

My website meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.

Some stuff I love:

#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction


Today we're releasing #LibreOffice 24.8.7, the last update to the older branch. After this, all users are recommended to upgrade to LibreOffice 25.2, the newer stable branch: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


🗣️ New interview !

@ThibaultMartin of @matrix.org sat down with @NGICommons to discuss the role Matrix plays in building a privacy-respecting, sustainable digital communication infrastructure.

Read more on our website: commons.ngi.eu/2025/05/07/matr…

#Matrix #DigitalCommons #foss #OpenSource #Decentralisation #Privacy #Sustainability #Fediverse

@OpenForumEurope
@openfuture
@martelinnovate
@cnrs
@linuxfoundation
@ngi


This year's #LibreOffice Conference will take place in Budapest from 4 - 6 September, and the Call for Papers is now open: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


LibreOffice isn't just an app – it's about defending our rights to access technology without barriers, to maintain control over our own files, and to study, modify and redistribute tools we use. These were topics at the recent FLISOL event in Brasilia: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource



It's not often I need to use "office programs" such as #LibreOffice. But it happens, and I've been running Linux on my computers for over 25 years without looking back or really considering anything else (except when doing music stuff, which is a different story for another thread).

But are there any @ONLYOFFICE users around here on Mastodon who can share some experience with it? Is it more lightweight? How is the interoperability with other office applications? Is it functionally stable, compared against LibreOffice? How does it compare in regards to features?

#foss #oss #onlyoffice


Get more out of #LibreOffice by downloading the free guidebooks created by our awesome documentation community! Here's a recap of what they did in 2024, from our Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource



Starting today – the Month of #LibreOffice, May 2025! Join our community and learn new things: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


Read Mike Herchel's DrupalCon Atlanta recap! He recounts his MUST-SEE sessions, how he and @mglaman teamed up to fix a bug, the after-hours social events, plus his own session, The Future of Drupal Theming --> herchel.com/articles/drupalcon… #drupalconatlanta #drupalcon #drupal #foss


@mgifford offers tips on small things you can do to help the voice of @drupal grow cumulatively across LinkedIn.
- Highlight community wins - big or small.
- Share what you’re doing - more than ever, people crave authentic voices.
- Promote each other's work - your colleagues will appreciate your support.
thedroptimes.com/47719/lets-ge… #drupal #foss



In April, we in the #LibreOffice community attended events in-person (giving away cool merchandise!). We also gave talks online, and announced the location of 2025's conference: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource


If you join the GNOME GitLab instance and you want to create or fork a project, you'll see an error that says:
"Limit has been reached You cannot create projects in your personal namespace. Contact your GitLab administrator."

Turns out, you have to add an SSH key to make it work.

forum.gitlab.com/t/i-cant-crea…

#GNOME #GitLab #FOSS


Ah good. Windows 11 is installing updates and such. I thought Linux accessibility was improving. And maybe on Arch, it's better. But you shouldn't have to be a power user, and don't kid yourself, if you can install Arch, remember to install Orca, enable ESpeakup, all that, you are a power user. I shouldn't have to be a power user to enjoy Linux. Honestly, most of what I do on Linux is just using the web, email, Terminal, and using Emacs. So, meh. Maybe I'm just not good enough for Linux. And this is why I stay cinical. If saving screen reader settings crashed just about everything including keyboard input, blind people would be storming the gates of that screen reader vendor. Just saying. Ugh. I'll just keep my work computer on Fedora 41. Oh, no wonder, I've not had my anti-depressants today. Blech.
#accessibility #foss #blind #linux


Wow, Orca can't keep focus right in Fedora 42. I'm not even sure how to describe this well enough. On Enafore, Mastodon client, arrow through your timeline. You'll get stuck in a loop of going down a few posts, then you'll be brought back to a previous one, and you'll be stuck around that post unless you arrow down fast enough or something. Wow I might just move back to Windows now on this computer at least.

#accessibility #orca #linux #foss #blind


Alright everyone on #fosstodon, LISTEN UP. @kev and @mike are (presumably) quitting. They've set up an amazing place and built it out into a real community.

Now the question is.. what do we do? I'd really like this server to keep existing. Is anyone interested in continuing Fosstodon with me? :fosstodon:

#foss #opensource #mastodon


NVDA 2025.1 Beta 3 is now available for testing. As well as all the NVDA 2025.1 updates, beta3 adds:
- Updates to translations
- Disallow new Remote Access session in Secure Mode
- Update Remote Access interface
- Add unassigned command for Remote Access settings
- SAPI 4 bug fixes

Read the full release notes (including all the 2025.1 features & fixes) & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS #PreRelease #News #Testing #Test #FreeSoftware #ScreenReader